Founded in 2006, Vringo is bringing about the evolution of ringtones. With its award-winning video ringtone application and Web platform, Vringo revolutionizes the traditional call signature, transforming the basic act of making and receiving mobile phone calls into a highly visual, social experience.

By installing Vringo's application, which is compatible with more than 300 handsets, users can create or take video, images and slideshows from virtually anywhere, including Vringo's library of 5,000-and-counting video ringtone clips or the Web, and make it into their personal call signature. In a first for the mobile industry, Vringo has introduced VringForward, a technology that lets its users select which video ringtone their friends will see when they call. Vringo's WAP and Web solutions complement this technology by enabling a rich mobile video experience for nearly any handset with video capability.

Vringo is backed by Warburg Pincus and by private investors. The company has been heralded by The New York Times as "the next big thing in ringtones" and by USA Today as having "to be seen to be believed."